[Cover photo credit to Josh Huskin]

Very Old Morris is the solo project of San Antonio-based singer-songwriter Jerid Reed Morris (The Texases), featuring members of Rose Windows (Sub Pop). Their forthcoming album, Boogedy Boogedy Boogedy Shoop, arrives this Fall as “an irreverent love letter to ’90s radio country” that uses an Alt-Country lens.

Recorded at Jett Bass Studios in Windcrest, Texas, the album pairs pedal steel and fiddle with guitars and “surprise mariachis.” Boogedy’s lyrics, meanwhile, “skate between deadpan absurdity and emotional devastation.”

The album also features covers of Iron & Wine and Calexico’s “Sixteen, Maybe Less”, and The Smashing Pumpkins’ “Thirty-Three”, transformed here into a banjo-driven song with mariachis.

Very Old Morris have also released their second single “That’s No Way to Act” out now. The song is an irreverent take on a Classic ’90s Country trope, namely: “I saw you with your new man; I’m happy for you, but it hurts me to say it.”

The narrator of this song, however, shows no such personal maturity. He’d “rather ridicule her new man, compare him (unfavorably) to himself, and make fun of his ride.” Nevertheless, he also briefly admits that losing his love was his own fault, and this is definitely sour grapes.